Hello, everyone!

I'm currently working on a Perl chess project and I have all my modules in separate .pm files. My directory tree is looking like this: 

    + Chess
      + Piece
        + Bishop.pm
        + King.pm
        + Knight.pm
        + Pawn.pm
      + Board.pm
      + Piece.pm
      + Square.pm
    + Tests
      + Bishop.pl
      + King.pl
      + Knight.pl
      + Pawn.pl
      + Square.pl

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I'm currently trying to write some tests, and I can't seem to be able to access any of the .pm files in the Chess/ or Chess/Piece directories. I kept getting the error: "Can't locate *.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ...)", so I tried adding my working directory to @INC with a code like this: 

BEGIN {
    push @INC, "path/to/directory/of/chess-square";
}

use Chess::Square;

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This got me nowhere, so I tried this as an alternative: 

use lib "path/to/directory/of/chess-square";
use Chess::Square;

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This didn't work either..

So, PerlMonks, can you help me out? How can I write the following code with my directory structure being as it is? 

use Chess::Square;
use strict;

my $square = Chess::Square->new();

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I'm using Windows and ActiveState Perl.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Regards,

Tommy

In reply to How to use a .pm file in a .pl file in another directory. by tommyxd

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